YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism

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Post by gilad » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 7:42 PM UTC

YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
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Post by vernie » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 8:24 PM UTC

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Post by izzydata » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 8:26 PM UTC

It's crazy to think that clicking on the "not interested in videos from this channel" button previously did not remove videos from that channel in recommendations. I used to press it up to 5 times on the same video and it still did nothing.

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Post by danaur » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 8:27 PM UTC

vernie wrote: post #2

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Yes they have approximately that functionality

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Post by tootahe45 » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 8:30 PM UTC

vernie wrote: post #2

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I think it's called not consuming political content.

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Post by vernie » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 8:30 PM UTC

danaur wrote: post #4

vernie wrote: post #2

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Yes they have approximately that functionality

Is that something that can be explicitly specified or do I need to constantly massage the algorithm by clicking "Not interested"?

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Post by MBCook » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 8:31 PM UTC

tootahe45 wrote: post #5

vernie wrote: post #2

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I think it's called not consuming political content.

I don’t consume ANY political content of any kind on YouTube. Or news.

But it still recommends both to me, and I hate it.

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Post by sosuke » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 8:32 PM UTC

tootahe45 wrote: post #5

vernie wrote: post #2

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I think it's called not consuming political content.

I've never ever click anything on YouTube that isn't something I absolutely enjoy.

All of my political YouTube views are in Incognito mode. Works great so far.

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Post by dredds » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 8:42 PM UTC

izzydata wrote: post #3

It's crazy to think that clicking on the "not interested in videos from this channel" button previously did not remove videos from that channel in recommendations. I used to press it up to 5 times on the same video and it still did nothing.

I click on "not interested" when it shows videos i've watched the day before, but then assuming i don't want to see videos of a similar type would be a mistake, yet that's how broken the system is. Any attempt to "train" the algo is wasted effort based on past experience. You could say we users have been "trained" by the algo not to even bother anymore.

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Post by wl » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 8:45 PM UTC

Is there a way to hide particular channels from search results? There are a handful of channels that post videos I have absolutely no interest in, but they do really well in YouTube's search algorithm.